Three libertines expelled from the puritanical court of Louis XVI seek support from the legendary seducer and debauched free thinker, the Duke of Walchen (Helmut Berger). Their unfulfilled desires dictate a quest for pleasure which goes beyond every norm. "I had the idea of a kind of cruising, a kind of historical cruising. It’s a costume film, yet it could very well be a film about night clubs in Berlin or elsewhere. Places where the same kind of erotic cruising is found." (Interview with Albert Serra)
An erotic nirvana somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin shortly before the French Revolution in 1774.
Three libertines expelled from the puritanical court of Louis XVI seek support from the legendary seducer and debauched free thinker, the Duke of Walchen (Helmut Berger).
Their unfulfilled desires dictate a quest for pleasure which goes beyond every norm.
"I had the idea of a kind of cruising, a kind of historical cruising. It’s a costume film, yet it could very well be a film about night clubs in Berlin or elsewhere. Places where the same kind of erotic cruising is found." (Interview with Albert Serra)